Mouser has signed connectivity specialist Helium to a global distribution agreement. Helium says its products reduce  IoT cost of operation. Their product line features Atom Modules, starter kits, and adapters plus Element Access Points The Atom Modules,  available in surface-mount and prototyping versions, are  dual-band RF communication modules for IoT-enabled wireless products. The Atom incorporates a ...

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TrendForce has produced its forecasts for 2018: 1. Tight supply, high prices to continue in DRAM market 2. AI’s influence on the semiconductor industry will expand 3. Numerous fabs in China will come on-stream. 4. OLED penetration in smartphones will increase from 28% to 33% 5. 5G deployment begins 6. Voice-based personal assistants will drive ...

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Despite the rising financial fortunes of ST, whose share price has doubled in the past twelve months, there are staff shortages at Isère and Crolles and the company is having difficulty in hiring and retaining staff, says CAD-ST, the organisation representing ST employees. This situation could lead, says CAD-ST, to interruptions in production. “STMicroelectronics must ...

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With President Trump denying China access to Lattice’s technology, the nascent China FPGA industry is looking to develop home-grown programmable logic. Digitimes reports that Shanghai Anlogic Information Technology vp Chen Li-guang says that China will have to develop the technology by themselves while concentrating on expanding their market share by focussing on entry-level products. . ...

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Despite Brexit, Silicon Valley VCs are pumping money into UK tech start-ups, report London & Partners, the Mayor of London’s promotional agency. UK start-ups received £884.8m from Bay Area VCs in the first nine months of this year, compared to £342m in the whole of 2016, says the agency. Major deals include Andreessen Horowitz’s investment ...

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One of the greatest and most enduring names in the semiconductor industry is about to be lost. 50 years ago, this year, Jean Hoerni, one of the ‘traitorous eight’ who founded Fairchild and the inventor of the planar process, founded Intersil. Intersil was bought by Renesas in 2015. Now Renesas is to drop the name ...

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Amazon and Alphabet showed off their differing business philosophies in their Q3 results. Amazon reported sales up 34% to $43.7 billion but said its profit was $256 million. Alphabet reported profit of $6.73 billion on sales of $27.7 billion. As well as looking for profit Alphabet is piling up cash – now over $100 billion. ...

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NetSpeed Systems, the on-chip network IP specialist and embedded analytics vendor UltraSoC, have teamed up to accelerate the time from concept to system validation for complex SoCs by integrating their product offerings allowing UltraSoC monitors, debug ports, and analytics, to work with NetSpeed infrastructure. UltraSoC’s IP enables designers to create an on-chip infrastructure that non-intrusively monitors a ...

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